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Don't have a heart attack but your implanted defibrillator can be hacked over the air (by someone who really wants you dead)

Friday March 22, 2019. 01:25 AM , from TheRegister
US govt sounds alarm over wireless comms, caveats apply
Medical gear maker Medtronic is once again at the center of a hacker panic storm. This time, a number of its heart defibrillators, implanted in patients' chests, can, in certain circumstances, be wirelessly hijacked and reprogrammed, perhaps to lethal effect.…
go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/22/medtronic_implanted_defibrillator_hackable/
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